A drawing exploring intimacy, desire, attachment, and the thin line between affection and consumption. The phrase “A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism” appears within the work as both a literal statement and a metaphor for the ways in which love can become possessive. A kiss is usually understood as an innocent gesture of tenderness, but here it becomes the first act of something more primal: the desire to absorb, possess, and become inseparable from another person. The monochromatic nature of the medium gives the piece a quiet and intimate atmosphere while allowing the written phrase to become part of the visual composition. Rather than presenting love as purely romantic or sentimental, the work approaches intimacy as something beautiful, strange, and potentially consuming.

The piece reflects on the contradiction between wanting to be close to someone and wanting to completely possess them. It asks where affection ends and consumption begins, and whether the desire to merge with another person can ever exist without some form of destruction. The result is a small meditation on love, obsession, intimacy, and the instinctive violence that can hide beneath ten

derness.